Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Music Saturation, Peak Fandom, Q1 Reports & More

Episode 247 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. LISTEN HERE:

Episode 247

On this week’s episode of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, join your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart as they discuss these important music industry stories:

• “2025 Q1 Earnings: Here’s What Every Music Company Made” (Billboard)
• “The Music Business Saturation Problem Keeps Getting Bigger” (Billboard)
• “Are We Reaching Peak Fandom?” (MIDiA).

Plus audio drops from Portia Sabin, President of the Music Business Association, Russ Crupnick, Managing Partner of Musicwatch, and Michael Huppe, President and CEO at Sound Exchange.

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